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Larisa LaBrant
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There's a reason the US Army still breeds, maintains and trains mule teams. Incredibly agile, can pick their way through difficult terrain, fabulous fabulous animals.

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This entire article on condom use is full of concerning news... esp when you consider antibiotic resistance is growing to be a sig. problem & some STIs are asymptomatic. So much more than just religious conservatism & inadequate high school sex ed classes contributing to this. 🛟medsky idsky episky

Condoms aren’t a fact of life for young Americans. They’re an afterthought
Condoms aren’t a fact of life for young Americans. They’re an afterthought

Condom use is down among sexually active teens and young adults. The decline in condom use is due to a combination of medical advancements like long-term birth control options and drugs that prevent s...

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I really think folks should call out more strongly: we will not become interplanetary. Not "not in the next few years". Not "not in his lifetime". Just "not ever".

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One of the factors in the simmering anger people feel toward government is the daily avalanche of corporate bullshit—inscrutable ToS, rampant appification, AI chatbots—that require us to act as our own full-time administrative assistants and legal advisors while simultaneously stealing our rights.

New York Times

Their Uber Driver Crashed. A Pizza Order Unraveled Their Injury Lawsuit.
A New Jersey couple sued Uber after a crash left them severely injured. An appeals court ruled that they had agreed to settle disputes out of court when they used the Uber Eats app.
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Amid cable TV chatter of transferring power to Mike Pence, Trump shocks doctors by briefly leaving the hospital so his motorcade can drive slowly by a handful of flag waving supporters as he waves. He is accused of endangering the lives of the two Secret Service agents with him.

Trump wearing a black facemask waving from his car
Trump waves from the backseat. A Secret Service driver and agent in the front seat wear facemasks
A handful of Trump supporters waving flags outside Walter Reed
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“Mark Zuckerberg has tried to remake his image from a dorky, democracy-destroying CEO into a cool democracy-destroying CEO” #FTFY

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When people with power attribute the suffering of those without power to God, they’re concealing culpability. 3/?

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If you're in Texas & know someone who's not registered to vote, THIS IS ALMOST IT: the deadline is this Monday. And if you think you're already registered, remember to check your own registration status, really as soon as possible: teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/MVP/mvp.do

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Holy crap. This is wild. We were tracking that dark money spend because it went from $10M to $25M per WEEK in October of 22. Just a completely insane amount of money. It probably singlehandedly kept them the House. And it was fucking Elon the whole time.

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The truth is that those of us who are not in the top 1% of the country have a lot more in common with Haitian immigrants than we do with the Elon Musks of the world. We benefit from safety nets. Cancer could bankrupt us. We deserve fair wages for fair labor. We can’t afford politicians.

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Larisa LaBrant
@larisa-labrant.bsky.social
She/Her/Hers Immune Deficient Cat Lady Crone
425 followers658 following1.5k posts